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The Iceland cricket team claim they will be the only international side to be fully crowdfunded

Iceland's cricket team is not among the heavyweights of the game, but thanks to the generosity of an online community of cricket lovers, fundraisers will hope the crack of leather on willow could be heard more and more in the north Atlantic nation's volcanic landscape.

"Because you raised £2,000, the r/Cricket community is now the official sponsor of the Iceland cricket team and its tours to the UK, in 2018 and 2019," Kit Harris - who started the crowdfunding campaign on behalf of the Iceland cricket team - wrote on Just Giving.

Harris promised further prominence for the Reddit cricketing community if the appeal reaches £2,500.

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Members of the Cricket subreddit were quick to celebrate the news. Reddit user thesatansvalet first contacted Kit Harris to propose the idea.

"Congrats to the whole community," they posted on r/Cricket after the target was reached.

"We have done something amazing thanks to all the generous people who donated towards this crowdfunding campaign.

"Now comes the fun part where we get to decide what we want to write on their jerseys."

Early favourites to be suggested by the community include "Ice Garry", a play on words aping the well-known call of "Nice, Garry," by Australian international wicketkeeper Matthew Wade to teammate Nathan Lyon (nicknamed Garry).